From: MAS! Date: January 16 2008 8:44am Subject: Re: Lost Connection each hour :( List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/210861 Message-Id: <4C8DC407-80D9-45F4-8B79-28372BDB2DCC@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Enter your mysql shell and enter the command: > set global max_allowed_packet=10M I have it setted at 32M, but that is not the problem; the data are not too much ... and it's strange because _ALL_ clients seems to died/be disconnected each hour, when the hourly cron runs..